For Black People: Cultural Appropriation?

[blissinanarchy1]

There are a lot of people out there who claim to not be racist, yet they don't try to understand the perspective of black people. Or maybe they do, but they dont try to understand WHY they have that perspective. So I have an educated guess to why. I might be from a black block, but I'm not black. I may have black personality traits, but I never go excessively to the point that it is unnatural. I have a perspective of something that may relate. I'm a white boy from the hood. (Philly). I live in the suburbs now, and see lots of white boys pretending to be Blood and Crip and pretend to be hood. When I see this, I think to myself... you embrace only the ADVANTAGES and style of it, but you don't have to deal with the disadvantages. You doing that is belitting and making insignificant the trauma and adversity that made the culture. It's almost like these guys didn't earn their wings. Does this at all mirror the black experience?

[Birdlegs]

Yea you’re right. I’m black and have never been hood, I never wanted to, never tried I’ve seen the outcomes. Anyone who actively tries to act like that just like how it looks instead of the actual lifestyle where they end up dead or in jail.

[BillyBalls]

And there is the key.

Being black is not limited to geography. Many blacks do not grow up in "the hood". Are those people "not black"?

Many blacks don't embrace the hood culture. Are those people not black?

I think the guy who posted the question has a screwed up perspective what what it is to be black.

[Anonymous]

How can it be appropriation when they're acting completely uncultured?

[blissinanarchy1]

Racism isn't cool.

[BillyBalls]

You are a racist.

You attribute the "hood rat" mentality to all blacks. That is racist.

They is a large percentage of blacks who have lived middle class lives. They don't act ghetto.

[blissinanarchy1]

No, I didn't attribute to all blacks. Specifically only black people from the hood.

[joeldalton]

Have you tried shutting the fuck up about race?

[blissinanarchy1]

I bet you've tried shooting up a school though.

[blissinanarchy1]

I can tell off the rip you get smacked around in real life for sharing your opinion. Probably the reason you come on here.

[joeldalton]

So you haven’t. I guess when you are a nothing in real life you sit around and complain about other people keeping you down. It’s easier than taking responsibility for your own failures, I guess.

[blissinanarchy1]

I can't even begin to comprehend the small mindedness of your white supremacy

[joeldalton]

lmao. It's ok to be white.

[jahaims]

Virtue signaling